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Urgent - Comet Lucas Dynamo doesn't appear to be charging
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<blockquote data-quote="Matty" data-source="post: 54983" data-attributes="member: 1339"><p>Hi</p><p>My Miller dynamo has been excellent for the last 58 years though I have made it look like a Lucas one in order to use a modern electronic regulator.</p><p></p><p>As a retired professional electrical/electronic engineer I help to fix many of the electrical problems for my branch of the VMCC and find that both the Miller and Lucas Dynamos work very reliably PROVIDED the owners keep oil out, check and renew the brushes regularly, check the commutator is clean and renew the bearings as necessary.</p><p></p><p>I usually replace bearings with sealed ones, which after all work for years in car alternators.</p><p></p><p>If anybody wants to know how to convert a Miller dynamo to look electrically like a Lucas one using a DYNAMO REGULATOR regulator I have produced a set of instructions which I have attempted to attach as a JPEG picture file, but this system refuses to accept it for some reason.</p><p></p><p>Any ideas how I can load this 400K jpeg file into the system please ?</p><p></p><p>The Dynamo Regulator site also has good instructions on how to do this and is another slant on the same theme.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matty, post: 54983, member: 1339"] Hi My Miller dynamo has been excellent for the last 58 years though I have made it look like a Lucas one in order to use a modern electronic regulator. As a retired professional electrical/electronic engineer I help to fix many of the electrical problems for my branch of the VMCC and find that both the Miller and Lucas Dynamos work very reliably PROVIDED the owners keep oil out, check and renew the brushes regularly, check the commutator is clean and renew the bearings as necessary. I usually replace bearings with sealed ones, which after all work for years in car alternators. If anybody wants to know how to convert a Miller dynamo to look electrically like a Lucas one using a DYNAMO REGULATOR regulator I have produced a set of instructions which I have attempted to attach as a JPEG picture file, but this system refuses to accept it for some reason. Any ideas how I can load this 400K jpeg file into the system please ? The Dynamo Regulator site also has good instructions on how to do this and is another slant on the same theme. [/QUOTE]
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